Whistler is not only a noted winner, he's a man's man, a generous philanthropist, a noted big game hunter, and a lover and a dancer. If he had a mustache it would be impeccably waxed. When he marches off to war, everyone else stays home.

Eventually I'll recover from that Banshee article and get back to writing. It probably won't be the Centurion, though, because 15 variants sounds like the exact opposite of recovering from burnout.

I'll get your reservations on the schedule, though.

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Kansas City players, or people who are just passing through the area, come join us at the Geekery just off Shawnee Mission Parkway for BattleTech! Current days are Tuesdays in the afternoon and evening. I can't make every single week, but odds are pretty good that somebody will be there.

i'll be posting the Legacy up tomorrow as scheduled. i think a specified date might help lock in a slot. but from what i understand you don't have to post with the schedule. however it is a good idea so we don't flood the board with articles at the same time or end up working on the same writeup (unlikely as that may be).

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Creater of 'Name That Mech'. glad the game is still going strong!

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Whistler is not only a noted winner, he's a man's man, a generous philanthropist, a noted big game hunter, and a lover and a dancer. If he had a mustache it would be impeccably waxed. When he marches off to war, everyone else stays home.

okay, while wrapping up and formatting my article something came to me, but i really wanted to check / discuss it with you guys first before i went and changed anything on my own. Alpha Strike Mech of the Week is a really clunky title, as well as being technically inaccurate. we're pretty much running two a week at this point. personally i was thinking that Alpha Strike Review would be a good name for our articles. that way we're free of the time and unit constraint. plus ASR is easier to work with than AS MotW. for now i will be sticking with it though, as i would like to find some consensus on the issue, even if that consensus is not to change anything.

thoughts?

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Whistler is not only a noted winner, he's a man's man, a generous philanthropist, a noted big game hunter, and a lover and a dancer. If he had a mustache it would be impeccably waxed. When he marches off to war, everyone else stays home.

It's supposed to be " of the week", but then we had like three feet posted within three days of each other. I made the schedule... and promptly burned out on a 14k word Banshee article. It should still be "of the week".

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Kansas City players, or people who are just passing through the area, come join us at the Geekery just off Shawnee Mission Parkway for BattleTech! Current days are Tuesdays in the afternoon and evening. I can't make every single week, but odds are pretty good that somebody will be there.

Kansas City players, or people who are just passing through the area, come join us at the Geekery just off Shawnee Mission Parkway for BattleTech! Current days are Tuesdays in the afternoon and evening. I can't make every single week, but odds are pretty good that somebody will be there.

Because nobody's done one in a while, and because I am clearly mad, I have just posted the Wolverine.

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"Thanks to Megamek, I can finally play BattleTech the way it was meant to be played--pantsless!" -Neko Bijin"It's just that the Hegemony had one answer to every naval problem. 'I kills it with my battleships.'" - Liam's Ghost"...finally, giant space panties don't seem so strange." - Whistler"The BT universe is startlingly deficient in both wisdom and hindsight." - Cray"Damn you, Weirdo... Damn you for being right!" - PaulBattleforce Space is too bulky. I vote we start calling it BattleFace.

Kansas City players, or people who are just passing through the area, come join us at the Geekery just off Shawnee Mission Parkway for BattleTech! Current days are Tuesdays in the afternoon and evening. I can't make every single week, but odds are pretty good that somebody will be there.

Only on the condition that you let MadCapellan find you a proper image to start the Demo-chan article off with.

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"Thanks to Megamek, I can finally play BattleTech the way it was meant to be played--pantsless!" -Neko Bijin"It's just that the Hegemony had one answer to every naval problem. 'I kills it with my battleships.'" - Liam's Ghost"...finally, giant space panties don't seem so strange." - Whistler"The BT universe is startlingly deficient in both wisdom and hindsight." - Cray"Damn you, Weirdo... Damn you for being right!" - PaulBattleforce Space is too bulky. I vote we start calling it BattleFace.

That would be a huge article, as evidenced by the fact that when reading your post, it took me five seconds to think of six units that qualify. Imagine the full list...

I suppose if we condense every unit that uses some kind of AC/5 for its ranged punch into one entry, that might trim things down a bit, as every single one of those gained immensely in this system.

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"Thanks to Megamek, I can finally play BattleTech the way it was meant to be played--pantsless!" -Neko Bijin"It's just that the Hegemony had one answer to every naval problem. 'I kills it with my battleships.'" - Liam's Ghost"...finally, giant space panties don't seem so strange." - Whistler"The BT universe is startlingly deficient in both wisdom and hindsight." - Cray"Damn you, Weirdo... Damn you for being right!" - PaulBattleforce Space is too bulky. I vote we start calling it BattleFace.

I already did an article on the Banshee and Uraeus, both of which qualify.

The Clint gains a stupid amount. So does the Rifleman, because heat is now optional.

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Kansas City players, or people who are just passing through the area, come join us at the Geekery just off Shawnee Mission Parkway for BattleTech! Current days are Tuesdays in the afternoon and evening. I can't make every single week, but odds are pretty good that somebody will be there.

You already did the Shadow Hawk at least, and early models of that REALLY gain in AS. Like I said earlier, anything where an AC/5 is all or most of your long-range firepower gains immensely in Alpha Strike, with most of them becoming very effective skirmishers. Clint, Shadow Hawk, Hermes II, Sentinel...you can't afford to ignore any of them anymore, and because so many are small and cheap it's really easy to field them in numbers, which gets really scary really fast.

Hell...Vedettes and Scorpions. When was the last time you saw a lance of those scare off anything under 60 tons? In AS, if you don't address them quickly, they'll tear you apart faster than a school of piranha in a cartoon.

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"Thanks to Megamek, I can finally play BattleTech the way it was meant to be played--pantsless!" -Neko Bijin"It's just that the Hegemony had one answer to every naval problem. 'I kills it with my battleships.'" - Liam's Ghost"...finally, giant space panties don't seem so strange." - Whistler"The BT universe is startlingly deficient in both wisdom and hindsight." - Cray"Damn you, Weirdo... Damn you for being right!" - PaulBattleforce Space is too bulky. I vote we start calling it BattleFace.

I have updated the first post, because looking at the Vulture Mk III article made me want to do more of them. This time won't be as breakneck, and I don't want to burn out. Requests are currently on "not now" status.

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Kansas City players, or people who are just passing through the area, come join us at the Geekery just off Shawnee Mission Parkway for BattleTech! Current days are Tuesdays in the afternoon and evening. I can't make every single week, but odds are pretty good that somebody will be there.

Kansas City players, or people who are just passing through the area, come join us at the Geekery just off Shawnee Mission Parkway for BattleTech! Current days are Tuesdays in the afternoon and evening. I can't make every single week, but odds are pretty good that somebody will be there.